Tioman Diving Trip Part I

This weekend I went on a diving trip to get my PADI open water diving license and the trip took us to... Malaysia! Tioman Island is situated to the East of mainland Malaysia and it took us a 3 hr car trip and 2 hr boat ride to get there. From the pictures you can see that it's a gorgeous place!

When we got to Malaysia, we had dinner on the side of the road at this stand. You had to choose sticks with food (ranging from chicken butt pieces to pig blood to green beans to fish to various other unidentifiable things) and then the owner of the food stand would fry or cook your chosen sticks.

Durian: the fruit that smells terrible, but is SUPPOSED to taste like heaven. I suppose it tastes almost as bad as it smells, but I've been told it's a fruit you have to get used to. The texture was very strange and no one in the group finished their piece...

Illegal DVDs were being sold on the side of the road.

The group consisted of mostly exchange students (from Norway, Czech, Spain, Japan, USA, Belgium, and Holland ofc!) and one doctor.

Malaysia is so pretty!









More to come in Part II! :)